Among the avalanche of streaming services available to us, FIFA has added its own platform to the mix. Called FIFA Plus, the platform will initially be available free of cost. However, folks at FIFA haven’t exactly ruled out the possibility of adding a subscription tier for some of its popular competitions like the World Cup.
Watch or stream for free thousands of live matches per month, untold stories from your favourite footballers, and the biggest archive of World Cup matches of all time on #FIFAPlus 👉 https://t.co/I3xNnrRSGOpic.twitter.com/u0GgRcnq93
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) April 12, 2022
FIFA director of strategy Charlotte Burr hinted at a future that may suggest a Netflix-like streaming service to watch its international competition.
“There is no plan to charge a subscription fee for the service,” Burr said. “That doesn’t mean to say that we may not evolve over time should there be a value proposition that allows us to charge subscription if we step into premium rights or adopt other kinds of models. But there will always be a free experience on FIFA+,” Burr added.
The platform will also host a variety of content including thousands of live matches, Amazon Prime or Netflix style documentary and more. Also, unlike its YouTube channel, which is geo-restricted in some regions, customers will be able to avail the service from anywhere in the world.
Unlike FIFA’s other endeavors, which have drawn backlash, the reception to FIFA Plus has been surprisingly positive. Here are some of the reactions –
Interesting for women's football fans: Fifa has launched a new streaming platform, Fifa+, and it promises to stream 11,000 women’s matches in 2022. There's also going to be archive content (including every Women’s World Cup match ever recorded) #FifaPlus https://t.co/xPgN6oFy5o
— Tom Garry (@TomJGarry) April 12, 2022
FIFA plus is great platform, I have just go through the idea and the app, one of FIFA big projects
— Prosper Bartalomew (@prosperbartha) April 12, 2022
Tested positive for Rona , but just installed fifa plus so have so many hours of old football brilliance to watch
— Michael (@Michael07894452) April 13, 2022
#13abr Keep calm and #FIFAPlus https://t.co/6VnZl7ZX4m pic.twitter.com/ob6SxQJtNW
— El Profe Bora (@ProfeBoraBora) April 13, 2022
This is massive. And I've had a hand in creating it.
We've been working on this since September, born from a thought in 2019.
If you love football, you'll love FIFA+#FIFAPlus https://t.co/nGWMwGxGOe
— Arky (@arkyfinity) April 12, 2022
I've still got to play around with it a bit more but @FIFAcom's new #FIFAPlus app looks really good.
Lots of original content, a clean match centre that covers more leagues than a lot of other sites do and tons of archived footage to trawl through.
— Liam Bekker (@LiamBekker) April 12, 2022
